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| Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. |
| Pablo Picasso |
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| Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them. |
| P. J. O'Rourke |
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| Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, Are the children of Men |
| Aristophanes |
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| How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as much to enforce their maxims by the credit of their lives |
| Samuel Johnson |
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| Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs. |
| P. J. O'Rourke |
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| I am not interested in the ephemeral-such subjects as the adulteries of dentists. I am interested in those things that repeat and repeat and repeat in the lives of the millions. |
| Thornton Wilder |
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| I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. |
| Harry S Truman |
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| I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up. |
| Barbara Bush |
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| I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult. |
| Fran Lebowitz |
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| I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child. |
| Albert Einstein |
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| I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home. |
| Robert Orben |
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| I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them. |
| Phyllis Diller |
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| I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. |
| Isaac Newton |
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| If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, (both) the beloved and the hated; and (if) the firstborn son be hers that was hated: Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit (that) which he hath, |
| Bible |
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| If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist. |
| Voltaire |
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| If he plays, being young and unskillful, For shekels of silver or gold, Take his money, my son praising Allah: The kid was ordained to be sold |
| Rudyard Kipling |
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| If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities. |
| Barbara Bush |
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| If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community |
| George Bernard Shaw |
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